Scientific Texts are generally concentrated on highly technical terms, and they are troublesome to understand due to their complexity in forms and meanings. Grammatical metaphor is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal. This paper focuses on the first type i.e. Ideational Grammatical Metaphor, which includes process types and nominalization. This paper adopts Hallidayan Systemic Functional Grammar to pinpoint and analyze nominalization and the role played by it. With a corpus of 10 authentic scientific texts drawn from very influential magazines, the analysis is conducted based on nominalization, its frequency and process types. The analysis displays that Ideational Grammatical Metaphor has permeated scientific texts and the prevailing process types are material and relational types. Consequently, the tone of the writing is more abstract, technical and formal. Instances of IGM In scientific writing enable technicality and rationality. Based on the findings of this study, some implications can be drawn for academic and scientific
The purpose of this study was to scrutinize the effect of strategy instruction on the frequency of reading strategy use as reported by Iranian EFL learners. To this end, two EFL intact classes were selected from Islamic Azad university of Malekan. Then, each of them was randomly assigned to act as control group (CG) and experimental group (Exp.). Both groups were required to respond to the Reading Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) questionnaire before and after treatment. The treatment included teaching a number of most commonly used reading strategies for a period of three months. After the treatment, both groups were again required to respond to the same questionnaire. The results indicated that there were significant differences between the CG and the Exp. groups in reporting the frequency of reading strategies in the posttest. EFL teachers can benefit from the findings of this study in the field of communication, task-based L2 classes, and reading strategies to enhance the EFL students' reading comprehension.
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